September 2011 Roundup

1st October 2011

Another busy month for mobile phone releases as manufacturers
announce handsets coming out by Christmas.

HTC

HTC had a very quiet period over the summer, but they are back
with a range of very different devices. Two new Windows phones,
the HTC TITAN is
a powerful high-end device, complemented by the more mid-market
HTC Radar.
In their Android line-up, HTC revamped their top-of-the-range Sensation
with the impressive HTC
Sensation XE. At the very bottom of the range is the new HTC
Explorer entry-level device. Somewhere in between is the
good looking and slightly girlie HTC
Rhyme.

Other manufacturers

One of the biggest announcements of the month was the Amazon
Kindle Fire, a customised Android tablet that might just challenge
Apple. The Sonim
XP3300 Force proved itself to be the world's toughest phone.
Chinese manufacturer Huawei started shipping their Huawei
Blaze handset in the UK, and announced their powerful Huawei
Honor Android smartphone. A generation of Nokia handsets
bowed out with the gold-plated Nokia
C3-01 Gold Edition. The Motorola
Milestone 3 started shipping in South America, but European
Moto fans may be out of luck with this smartphone. And right at
the start of the month, Sony demonstrated that not all tablets have
to be the same with the Sony
Tablet S and Tablet P.